Nicklas Sørensen

YouTube video by alice e Loren Mazzacane Connors - Long Nights

Music for a Friday night in this life I call my life:

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While waiting for the new Tortoise to arrive in the mail, I've gone back to the beginning listening to their debut album. While TNT is probably their masterpiece, this album is sometimes my favorite.

Now listening to this great LP - the latest from the superb Ghosted trio consisting of Oren Ambarchi, Johan Berthling & Andreas Werliin. Trippy minimalistic music that puts you in a mild and nice form of trance.

Thanks a lot for the kind words! Much appreciated. Pre-order is now online, and US distro is coming soon! www.stickman-records.com/shop/papir-ix/

Papir revel in the further reaches of the cosmic kingdom. “IX.I” might fit in with the post-rock roost the best, building to ecstatic heights over the thunder and rumble of drums. Sørensen’s guitars soar, a buoy for the spirit and a beacon in an age of darkness. bit.ly/47oVhQ7

I don't think you will be disappointed!

Having a severe headache, so I tried with some guitar playing. This is an arrangement of an old Danish folk song I made 20 years ago or so and now just added a another part to it for some reason. I don't know. Gotta go for a walk and get some fresh air.

Reminds me somehow of late 1970s Shakti meeting Bill Connors or something and a bit of Erik Wøllo's acoustic album as well, but entirely its own thing.

New to me I immediately went and checked out the whole album and was blown away. Amazing and flawless playing, great compositions and interesting harmonic structures.

Simultaneously with reading the great news about a forthcoming new Steve Tibbetts album on ECM I was checking out the latest episode of Jim O'Rourke's radio show on NTS, where he played a track from this other ECM- guitar album from 1981 called "Dawn Dance" by Steve Eliovson and Colin Walcott...

Finally, here is the bandcamp link if anyone is interested: papir.bandcamp.com/album/ix-2

YouTube video by Papir - Topic IX.I

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First single from the new Papir album is out now and can be heard on the so called streaming platforms (including bandcamp later this afternoon). Here is a first take somehow fumbling acoustic version of the track.

I should have been less impulsive and had my old Kenwood fixed...oh well, grateful I don't have bigger problems in my life at the moment.

Maybe I'll get used to it. Also considering just playing CDs on the Sony DVD player I have - the sound aesthetic seems somehow closer to the smooth lo-fi. But it's still confusing.

So I bought this new NAD CD player & although it's not that expensive, my CDs sound almost too good now compared to my old cheap Kenwood from the late-90s.I'm not a gear head or hi-fi person, but I guess I somehow prefer very cheap sound on my stereo? I don't know,maybe it's an illusion.Feels weird.

Some of it sounds almost ahead of it's time like some weird Gen Z math-rock played on two guitars, but it's really listenable and reminds me of the legacy of prog-rock too. Great stuff.

these guitar explorations the two of them manage to unfold together are nothing short of amazing. Harmonically rich, rhythmically complex and solo-wise on the top.

being in the same league as Fripp when it comes to exploring and experimenting in a masterful way. But somehow I think that Summers, while maybe not on the exact same level as Fripp, is still kind of underrated (yes, I was a Police fan when I was younger) and

Evening listening. Andy Summers and Robert Fripp - "The Complete Recordings 1981-1984". Most people will probably agree that Robert Fripp is kind of a virtuoso and an inventor of guitar sounds and styles. Fewer will probably instantly think of Andy Summers as

Ha, awesome. I'm actually on disc 2 now. Immersive and mesmerizing stuff as expected.

Got a new temporary CD-player and a day off = perfect occasion for diving into the new triple CD from The Necks. 3 hours...see you on the other side.

Monday impro, I don't know

Starting this apparently beautiful Sunday in October with wonderfully spacious, minimal and deep breathing music by Juho Toivonen @paatoimitus.bsky.social.

To some extent I would have had the discipline to study, but for some reason I always lacked the discipline of keeping focus.

There are probably some academic or spiritual discourses in this area that could have helped me get an understanding of all this, so I would not have to get lost in my own speculations again and again.

It's also a paradox of having become pretty good at picking records+what to listen to based on what I feel on a given day. But at the same time that seems like a trap - like I don't want music's quality reduced to only what I feel like hearing, that seems contractionary to expanding one's horizon.

I guess the exercise I am trying to get closer to, is to not think it's either/or. But there is a discipline to keep that open perspective that is sometimes difficult to practice and yes it's a priority cause time is valuable and life is not endless.

Well, that's pretty much spot on what I'm thinking about...cause weird thing is, that although I think you might very well be right about that, that is at the same time, what I am afraid of - being able to distinguish things less.

Right. I'm probably much the same. It's merely a feeling or reflection I sometimes stumble upon I guess...of being immersed in the search or a memory of once being able to distinguish things more. Don't know, it's hard to explain. Could also be a sign of insecurity from me and might not be important